[WikiEN-l] e-mails to wikien-l being dropped

Fri Jul 1 00:09:39 UTC 2005

On 7/1/05, Nathan J. Yoder <njyoder at energon.org> wrote:

> >  The
> > reference to [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]] should be all a reasonable
> > person needs; that you don't seem to get it should not ultimately be anyone
> > else's problem.
> 
> You have seriously got to be kidding me.  Have you read the talk page
> for "no personal attacks"?  There is a lot of debate going on about
> what constitutes a personal attack and what should/shouldn't be
> allowed.  There is no clear consensus and you suggesting that it's
> just what a reasonable person needs just a way for you to continue
> being evasive and avoiding defining it.

Going by the reality, personal attacks are condoned if the person
making the attacks is "a good editor".

Get together a few like-minded souls and you can pretty much do what
you want in Wikipedia. The policies are optional.

-- 
Peter in Canberra